[sdiy] Good Eurozone component sources

[Tom Bugs]

Andre at ADDAC would be a good guy to ask.
addac [ at ] addacsystem [ dot ] com

On 20/02/2014 22:44, Neil Johnson wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Have you synced up with the local hackerspace community?
>
> Neil
>
> On 20/02/2014, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
>> Thanks for the ideas. I hadn't though of Mouser, so that's worth looking
>> into.
>>
>> Here's what I know and what I've tried so far:
>>
>> I tried Digikey, which works, but the Portuguese are hot on customs charges
>> (trying to pay off their government debt!) so it's not terribly cost
>> effective.
>>
>> Farnell have given up in Portugal, although they haven't taken their website
>> down. You can even order, and get a acknowledgement, but if you do, a couple
>> of days later, you get an email cancelling the order and referring you to
>> their "local distributor", who doesn't have any sort of online ordering
>> facility at all.
>>
>> RS have an office in Spain which deals with Spanish and Portuguese orders.
>> Unfortunately their website is unable to deal with the different rates of
>> VAT between the two countries and any order to RS subsequently involves
>> several phone calls to them in Spain to pay the required VAT. This wouldn't
>> be so bad, except that they have to delete the order you made, and re-enter
>> it all with the correct rate of VAT. In short, it's a faff.
>>
>> Maybe I'll have to try some Portuguese stomp box forums or something.
>> Someone here must build something!
>>
>> T.
>>
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